Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-15
THE CITIZEN
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The birds with carols hail the dawn,
The morning comes they say,
The goat Is browsing on the lawn.
At hop-scotch school girls play.
The sun is drying up the ground,
Th0iky's no more obscured,
The base ball umpire's looking round
To get his life insured.
Have you got the spring fever
The new natural gas burners are sue
cess.
Men and brethren, we are standing on
the brink Of another baseball season.
The robins now begin to chirp at a. m.
and day breaks shortly after.
ALI persons implicated in the New Cas-
tie deceased meat scandal have been held tor
court.
A number of new advertisements in our
columns claim the attention Of our readers
this week.
A bill TO remunerate school directors
has been introduced Into the State Legisla-
ture.
The trial of Dave King for the murder
J. c. Davis, will begin at Clar ion next
Monday.
-Messrs John Campbell. w. FL. Ell. Riddle
and Judge Hazen have purchased the bill
side north of Riddles place, and propose
seeding it for pasture.
The Plate Glass Co. has purchased IL
acres of the Helm farm, east OF the works,
looking towards an enlargement of their plant
in the future.
The Butler Glass Co. proposes building
another prescription bottle works adjoining
their present works, provided the Improve
ment Association will donate the lot.
America ahead all round Law and or.
der prevails in the South and West, and
liberty is re-established in Michigan ana In
Butler rcounty.-Kfuanniag Globe tDem.J
The horse-thief is loose in south Butler
township, ard horses have lately been taken
fror, the stables of Messrs. Bredin and Grat-
hill
-Anybody who wants it, can get about
thousand loads of good fertilizlng dirt from
around the Court House by applying to the
commissioners.
Two old gray headed drunken men be-
inc yuved by crowds of men and boys, was
"fnn alive" on Main street Wednesday al
ternoon.
If YOU would avoid zymotic diseases
like scarlet fever, clean up your premises,
use lime freely, and above all things, be sure
that your supply of drinking water IL pure.
The weather this week has been lovely,
~ we all know, but the farmers say that rain
is needed to save the wheat. The mercury
has been ranging between 20 and 70.
The sale of the Shenango & Allegheny
railroad. which was to have taken place last
week, was adjourned until Tuesday, the 18th
inst.
The exhibition given by the children OF
the German Catholic church in the Opera
Hause Monday evening, was well attended,
and was great lyappreciated by the audience
The children all did well.
DIR. Frank Winter, of Allegheny City,
formerly Of Zelienople, has been arrested on
serious charges preferred by German girl,
and will have hearing to-day. The Dr.
SAYS it IL a case Of blackmaIi.
Mr.. Mohr, the man arrested for forgery
al Harmony some days ago, is yet skirmisn'
ing around for his $500 bail, and everybody
seems to be resting easy IN the matLer.
There IL said to be some doubt Of the mans
guilt.
The anti Randall Democrats are having
high times over the rum6r that Cleveland IL
IL about to make clean sweep 10 the Penn
syIyania Offices; and that no Randall men
need apply.-Er.
A counterfeit on the new nickel fve-
cent piece Of 1887 is being extensively cir
culated. II il almost all lead, and the letters
"rty" OF the word liberty" are entirely OBJ
liberated.
The new ordinance regarding side walks,
requires all board walks to to be constructed
Of oak plank -styo i2ches thick, cut in four
or six foot lem Nlns, according to the width OF
!. the street, and laid across either three or
four oak stringers, each four inches square.
The Sunday edition Of the PittsburG
Dis0nfch always consists Of sixteen pages OF
the best reading matter going, and it has at
tanned circulation Of $4,000 copies. The
Daily D;spafch Ia q complete newspaper, and
the publishers claim, both for II ana the
Sunday, the largest circulation Of any pa
per in the State outside Of Philadelphia.
"A young lady Of the South Side, Pitts
purg, who had wealth Of golden hair,
reaching below her waist, was chloroformed
and robbed Of IL at her own home Tuesday
afternoon, by veiled woman who pretend
ed to be peddling hair crimpers.
The government chemists have found
fresh proofs that the world ia hollow and our
spices stuffed with sawdust. Fortunately
this is matter that can be easily remedied.
Spice mills do not cost much; let every fam
lily get one and grind its own spices. Only
the ground spices are adulterated.
- At the quarterly examination Of pupils In
the Allegheny schools last week. the follow.
,pen wax one of the questions: Divide .OOl by
III j: multiply the result by 10 millionths;
Aiyide by 10 millioas, add .001 and multiply
ythe result by 100.00o0i.
= There are some Butler county names In
the list Of the Panhandle railroad employees
arrested in Pittsburg last Saturday night, but
they may not be natives Of this county. The
plunder Of the gang il estimated TO be worth
from two 10 three hundred thousand dollars,
and the stealing has been going on for years
Miss Mollie GiIkey has purchased q
feet OF the Douzal property from w. G.
Thompson for 5000, and Geo. Keiterer the
other lot Of % feet between his building and
the lot for 5000. Mr.. /. J. McCandless has